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Science Fiction Stories. Easy Readers ed. Robert Dewsnap (Aschehoug, 1999, pb, an)     Details supplied by Jess Nevins. · The Teddysaurus · James Hamilton-Paterson · ss Space 1 ed. Richard Davis, Abelard Schuman UK, 1973 · Mistaken Identity · E. C. Tubb · ss Science Fantasy #20, December 1956, as by D. W. R. Hill · Neighbour · Clifford D. Simak · nv Astounding Science Fiction June 1954

Detective Crime Stories by Lee Dexter (Curtis Warren, 1949, 9d, 128pp, pb, oc)     Contains the title story by Dexter, plus two short stories by Bevis Winter. 1 · Detective Crime Stories · Lee Dexter · na 67 · The Ghoul · Bevis Winter · nv 101 · Pickle Profit [Sebastian Riffkin] · Bevis Winter · ss

Alias “The Night Wind” by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey--- see under Varick Vanardy.

Alias the Night Wind by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey--- see under Varick Vanardy.

Promise of the Night Wind by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey--- see under Varick Vanardy.

The Return of the Night Wind by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey--- see under Varick Vanardy.

All the Devils Are Here ed. David D. Deyo, Jr. (Unnameable Press, August 1986, 0-934227-02-0, $8.50, 117pp, pb, oa)     Original fantasy/horror anthology of stories and poetry, including work by Bradbury, Bishop, Brennan, etc. A small-press book produced for ConFederation. viii · Preface: Fevers of the Mad · David D. Deyo, Jr. · pr 3 · Niche · Glen R. Egbert · ss 8 · Still Place · Joseph Payne Brennan · pm 9 · Gang of Thieves · Jame A. Riley · pm 9 · Random Selection · Memye Curtis Tucker · pm 10 · Afternoon of a Faun · Sharon Webb · vi 11 · Dragons in the Web · David D. Deyo, Jr. · pm 13 · A Strange and Silent Lifeboat Gliding Softly on the Water · Gregory Nicoll · ss 18 · No Reconciliations · Scott H. Urban · pm 19 · Game #27 · John R. Lederle · pm 20 · Cradle Robbers · Janet Fox · ss 24 · L’Etat (The State) · Gary Baker · pm 25 · The Window · Warlock Vance · pm 26 · Dear Bill · Michael Bishop · vi 28 · Not to Be · John R. Lederle · pm 29 · The Borderland · Leslie A. Cook · pm 29 · Untitled · Amy Henderson · pm 31 · Nerves a Specialty · David D. Deyo, Jr. · ss 39 · Remember · Joseph Payne Brennan · pm 39 · Once, at Least · Joseph Payne Brennan · pm 39 · Cemetery Wind · Joseph Payne Brennan · pm 40 · Death Has Lost Its Charm for Me · Ray Bradbury · pm 42 · Little Maryann · G. A. Whittington · ss 50 · The Long Sleep That Outlasts Love · Amy Henderson · pm 51 · New Beginnings · Scott H. Urban · vi 53 · My Cup of Tea · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss 60 · Raise a Torso, Raise a Glass · David D. Deyo, Jr. · pm 61 · Selections from “Mr. Templeton’s Toyshop” · Thomas L. Wiloch · vi 65 · Curious Rumors of a Difficult Birth in the Catacombs · Michael N. Langford · ss 71 · A Medieval Romance · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · pm 76 · Wreckage · Jame A. Riley · pm 77 · Lies · Brian W. Aldiss · ss 92 · Tomorrow’s Witch · Gerald W. Page · pl adapted for radio from a short story of the same name by Carleton Grindle. 97 · The Prodigy of Dreams · Thomas Ligotti · ss 105 · When I See the Breaking Sun · David D. Deyo, Jr. · pm 107 · Through the Door to Might-Have-Been · Brad Strickland · ss 114 · A Killer in the Corridor · Gary Baker · vi 115 · Principalities · [uncredited] · bg

Short Stories by Latin American Women—The Magic and the Real ed. Celia Correas de Zapata (Modern Library, 2003, 0-8129-6707-0, $12.95, 246pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Arte Publico Press 1990) anthology of short stories by thirty Latin American women authors including Isabel Allende, Rosario Ferré, and Amparo Davila. Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. xi · Foreword · Isabel Allende · fw xiii · Introduction · Celia Correas de Zapata · in 3 · An Act of Vengeance · Isabel Allende; translated by E. D. Carter, Jr. · ss translated from the Spanish. 11 · Sophie and the Angel · Dora Alonso; translated by Beatriz Teleki · ss translated from the Spanish. 17 · Asthmatic · Helena Araujo; translated by Catherine Rodríguez-Nieto · ss translated from the Spanish. 30 · The Tree · María Luisa Bombal; translated by Richard Cunningham & Lucía Guerra · ss translated from the Spanish. 40 · Culinary Lesson · Rosario Castellanos; translated by Julián Palley · ss translated from the Spanish. 51 · The End of a Struggle · Amparo Dávila; translated by Catherine Rodríguez-Nieto · ss translated from the Spanish. 56 · In Heaven · Guadalupe Dueñas; translated by John Benson · vi translated from the Spanish. 58 · Shoes for the Rest of My Life · Guadalupe Dueñas; translated by John Benson · vi translated from the Spanish. 61 · The Child That Never Was · Maria Virginia Estenssoro; translated by John Benson · ss translated from the Spanish. 65 · A Poisoned Tale · Rosario Ferré; translated by Diane Vélez · ss translated from the Spanish. 76 · Blame the Tlaxcaltecs · Elena Garro; translated by Ina Cumpiano · ss translated from the Spanish. 93 · The Last Emigrant · Nora Glickmann; translated by John Benson · ss translated from the Spanish. 98 · The Virgin’s Passion · Lucía Guerra; translated by Richard Cunningham & Lucía Guerra · ss translated from the Spanish. 107 · Berkley or Mariana of the Universe · Liliana Heker; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss translated from the Spanish. 114 · Knight, Death and the Devil · Vlady Kociancich; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss translated from the Spanish. 121 · The Cove · Luisa Mercedes Levinson; translated by Sylvia Ehrlich Lipp · ss translated from the Spanish. 129 · Looking for Some Dignity · Clarice Lispector; translated by Leland Guyer · ss translated from the Portuguese. 138 · In the Family · María Elena Llano; translated by Beatriz Teleki · ss translated from the Spanish. 142 · Symbiotic Encounter · Carmen Naranjo; translated by Cedric Busette · ss translated from the Spanish. 148 · The Midgets · Olga Orozco; translated by Gustavo V. Segade · ss translated from the Spanish. 156 · A Gentleman on the Train · Antonia Palacios; translated by Delia Hufton · ss translated from the Spanish. 166 · Breaking the Speed Record · Cristina Peri Rossi; translated by Psiche Bertini Hughes · vi translated from the Spanish. 170 · Big-Bellied Cow · Nélida Piñón; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss translated from the Portuguese. 178 · To Sieze the Earth · Josefina Pla; translated by Catherine Rodríguez-Nieto · ss translated from the Spanish. 187 · Park Cinema · Elena Poniatowska; translated by Teresa Méndez-Faith & Elisabeth Heinicke · ss translated from the Spanish. 193 · The Story of a Cat · Teresa Porzecanski; translated by Roland Hamilton · ss translated from the Spanish. 198 · Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher · María Theresa Solari; translated by John Benson · ss 203 · The Tale of the Velvet Pillows · Marta Traba; translated by Jeanne Vaughn · ss translated from the Spanish. 209 · Up Among the Eagles · Luisa Valenzuela; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss translated from the Spanish. 216 · Penelope’s Silver Wedding Anniversary · Rima de Vallbona; translated by Mary G. Parham · ss translated from the Spanish. 223 · Cloud Cover Carribean · Ana Lydia Vega; translated by Mark McCaffrey · ss translated from the Spanish. 229 · The IWM 1000 · Alicia Yáñez Cossío; translated by Susana Castillo & Elsie Adams · ss translated from the Spanish (“La IWM mil”, 1975).

The Best American Short Stories 2016 ed. Junot Díaz & Heidi Pitlor (Houghton Mifflin, 2016, 978-0-544-58275-0, xx+311pp, hc, an) ix · Foreword · Heidi Pitlor · fw xii · Introduction · Junot Díaz · in 1 · Apollo · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · ss The New Yorker April 13 2015 12 · Ravalushan · Mohammed Naseehu Ali · ss Bomb #131, 2015 22 · Garments · Tahmima Anam · ss Freeman’s October 2015 34 · Wonders of the Shore · Andrea Barrett · nv Tin House Winter 2015 55 · The Bears · Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum · ss Glimmer Train #93, Spring/Summer 2015 69 · The Great Silence · Ted Chiang · ss e-flux journal May 8 2015 [Ref. Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla] written as a script for the video installation at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum with artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (2014). 73 · The Flower · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker June 29 2015 86 · The Letician Age · Yalitza Ferreras · ss Colorado Review Summer 2015 103 · For the God of Love, for the Love of God · Lauren Groff · ss American Short Fiction #60, 2015 121 · The Suitcase · Meron Hadero · ss The Missouri Review Fall 2015 132 · Treasure State · Smith Henderson · ss Tin House Summer 2015 145 · Pat + Sam · Lisa Ko · ss Copper Nickel Fall 2015 158 · Cold Little Bird · Ben Marcus · ss The New Yorker October 19 2015 177 · The Politics of the Quotidian · Caille Millner · ss Zyzzyva #104, 2015 192 · Bridge · Daniel J. O’Malley · ss Alaska Quarterly Review Spring/Summer 2015 196 · The Prospectors · Karen Russell · nv The New Yorker June 8/June 15 2015 219 · On This Side · Yuko Sakata · nv The Iowa Review Spring 2015 241 · Gifted · Sharon Solwitz · ss New England Review v36 #2, 2015 256 · Secret Stream · Héctor Tobar · ss Zyzzyva #103, 2015 268 · Williamsburg Bridge · John Edgar Wideman · nv Harper’s Magazine November 2015 291 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 304 · 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2015 · [uncredited] · bi 308 · Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · [uncredited] · ms

The Picador Book of Crime Writing ed. Michael Dibdin (Picador, 1993, 0-330-32556-6, £14.99, 433pp, hc, an) v · On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts · Thomas De Quincey · ar Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1827 1 · Introduction · Michael Dibdin · in · Serious Business 11 · The Man Who Killed Himself · Julian Symons · ex 1967 16 · The Shooting Party · Anton Chekhov; translated by A. E. Chamot & Julian Symons · ex 1964 23 · The Postman Always Rings Twice · James M. Cain · ex Jonathan Cape, 1934 27 · Thérèse Raquin · Émile Zola · ex 1886 33 · A Kiss Before Dying · Ira Levin · ex Simon & Schuster, June 1953 40 · Under the Knife · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Short Friday and Other Stories by Isaac B. Singer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964 translated from the Yiddish (“Unter’n meser”). 49 · The Maul and the Pear Tree · P. D. James & T. A. Critchley · ex 1971 57 · “A Case of Fratricide” · Franz Kafka; translated by J. A. Underwood · ex 1981 60 · “Killings” · Andre Dubus · ex 1991 70 · “Hitcher” · Simon Armitage · ex from Book of Matches, Faber and Faber, 1993 72 · Smoke [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ex Harper’s Magazine April 1932 81 · Pick-Up on Noon Street · Raymond Chandler · ex Detective Fiction Weekly May 30 1936, as “Noon Street Nemesis” 88 · The Killing of the Saints · Alex Abella · ex Serpent's Tail, 1991 · The Police in Different Voices 105 · Sir, You Bastard · G. F. Newman · ex 1970; revised. 115 · The Steam Pig [Tromp Kramer & Mickey Zondi] · James McClure · ex Gollancz, 1971 125 · Act of Darkness · Francis King · ex Hutchinson, 1983 139 · Cop Killer · Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö; translated by Thomas Teal · ex Gollancz, 1975 149 · Murder at the Munition Works · G. D. H. & M. Cole · ex 1940 156 · A Coat of Varnish · C. P. Snow · ex 1979 166 · The Erasers · Alain Robbe-Grillet · ex 1964 translated from the French (Les Gommes, Editions de Minuit; Paris, 1953). 175 · Maigret’s Memoirs [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by J. Stewart · ex Hamish Hamilton, 1963 translated from the French (Les Mémoires de Maigret, Fayard; Paris, 1950). 183 · Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas · Hunter Thompson · ex Random House, July 7 1972 187 · Freaky Deaky · Elmore Leonard · ex Arbor House, 1988 · Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards 197 · untitled (“These tales of ratiocination”) · Edgar Allan Poe · ex from “Selections from the Correspondence of Poe”, The Century Magazine August 1894 (+2) 197 · Epilogue: To Will H. Low · Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne · ex 1892 198 · Why Do People Read Detective Stories? · Edmund Wilson · ex 1950 198 · Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel · Raymond Chandler · ex Raymond Chandler Speaking by Raymond Chandler, 1962 199 · How to Write a Detective Story · G. K. Chesterton · ex G.K.’s Weekly October 17 1925 199 · The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley · Philip Van Doren Stern · ex The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1941 200 · untitled (“Without dispraise of any individual writer”) · T. S. Eliot · ex The Monthly Criterion June 1927 200 · Finnegans Wake · James Joyce · ex Faber and Faber, 1939 201 · “Send for Lord Timothy” · John Heath-Stubbs · pm 1988 202 · untitled (“Two things haven’t been given to me yet”) · Antonio Gramsci · ex (r) 204 · A Sober Word on the Detective Story · Harrison R. Steeves · ex Harper’s Magazine April 1941 204 · untitled (“Never has man, English-speaking man in particular”) · Norman Shrapnel · ex (r) 206 · untitled (“When Dickens sat down to write Bleak House”) · Alan Pryce-Jones · ex (r); given as by Allen Pryce-Jones. 207 · untitled (“If someone cries ‘The same old thing again!’”) · Bertolt Brecht; translated by Jeff Morrison · ex 1993 translated from the German (“Über die Popularitat des Kriminalromans”, Gesammelte Werke, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1967). 207 · “Only a Detective Story” · Joseph Wood Krutch · ex The Nation November 25 1944 207 · Wilkie Collins and Dickens · T. S. Eliot · ex The Times Literary Supplement August 4 1927 208 · untitled (“The characters in crime novels do not just leave their imprint”) · Bertolt Brecht; translated by Jeff Morrison · ex 1993 translated from the German (“Über die Popularitat des Kriminalromans”, Gesammelte Werke, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1967). 208 · The Pledge · Friedrich Dürrenmatt; translated by R. Winston & C. Winston · ex Jonathan Cape, 1959 translated from the German (Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman, Die Arche; Zürich, 1958). 210 · City of Glass · Paul Auster · ex Sun & Moon, 1985 211 · The Analysis of a Detective Story · Charles Rycroft · ex (r) 213 · untitled (“In essence, the basic question of philosophy”) · Umberto Eco · ex 1993 translated from the Italian (Postille a ‘Il nome della rosa’, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri). 213 · untitled (“We gain experience in life in the form of disasters”) · Bertolt Brecht; translated by Jeff Morrison · ex 1993 translated from the German (“Über die Popularitat des Kriminalromans”, Gesammelte Werke, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1967). 214 · Passing Time · Michel Butor; translated by J. Stewart · ex Faber and Faber, 1961 translated from the French (L’Emploi du Temps, Editions de Minuit; Paris, 1951). 215 · “Detective Story” · W. H. Auden · pm The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden by W. H. Auden, Random House, 1945 216 · Simenon and “Le Commissaire” · Pierre Weisz · ex (r) [Ref. Georges Simenon] 217 · untitled (“It is not the impossible I object to in detective novels”) · Harold Nicolson · ex The Spectator March 23 1951; given as by Harold Nicholson. 217 · “The Wings of Henry James” · James Thurber · ex 1961 218 · untitled (“In some twenty years, the American crime novel”) · Raymond Queneau; translated by Michael Dibdin · ex translated from the French (Batons, Chiffres et Lettres, September 15, 1945). 219 · Words · Jean-Paul Sartre; translated by Irene Clephane · ex Hamish Hamilton, 1964 translated from the French (Les Mots, Gallimard). 219 · “Somewhere a Roscoe…” · S. J. Perelman · ar The New Yorker October 15 1938 223 · Fast One [Gerry Kells; S. Granquist] · Paul Cain · ex Doubleday Doran, 1933 223 · The Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays · Northrop Frye · ex 1957 · Uncommon Murders 227 · Uncommon Murders · Michael Dibdin · si 231 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 236 · Porphyria’s Lover · Robert Browning · pm Monthly Repository January 1836, as “Porphyria” 238 · The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By · Georges Simenon; translated by S. Gilbert · ex 1942 translated from the French (L’Homme Qui Regardait Passer les Trains, Fayard; Paris, 1938). 242 · The Vatican Cellars · André Gide; translated by D. Bussy · ex Cassell, 1952 translated from the French (Les Caves du Vatican, Gallimard; Paris, 1950). 247 · The Picture of Dorian Gray [Dorian Gray] · Oscar Wilde · ex Ward, Lock & Co., 1891 253 · A Kiss of Fire · Masako Togawa; translated by S. Grove · ex 1988 259 · Reputation for a Song · Edward Grierson · ex Chatto & Windus, 1952 270 · Verdict of Twelve · Raymond Postgate · ex Collins, 1940 283 · A Pin to See the Peepshow · F. Tennyson Jesse · ex Heinemann, 1934 296 · The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor · Cameron McCabe · ex Gollancz, 1937 301 · “Model Village” · Carol Ann Duffy · pm 1987 303 · The Thirty-First of February · Julian Symons · ex Gollancz, 1950 309 · “A Staffordshire Murderer” · James Fenton · pm 1982 311 · Malice Aforethought · Francis Iles · ex Gollancz, 1931 · The Dangerous Edge of Things 325 · The Dangerous Edge of Things · Michael Dibdin · si 330 · The Lodger · Marie Belloc Lowndes · ex Nash’s Magazine January 1911 340 · The Killers [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1927 347 · The Glass Key · Dashiell Hammett · ex Knopf, 1931 355 · Squeeze Play · Paul Benjamin · ex Faber and Faber, 1991 360 · Trust · George V. Higgins · ex 1989 366 · The Lady in the Lake · Raymond Chandler · ex Knopf, 1943 373 · A Red Death [Easy Rawlins] · Walter Mosley · ex Serpent's Tail, 1991 380 · The Second Curtain · Roy Fuller · ex 1953 385 · Plain Murder · C. S. Forester · ex 1930 393 · We, the Accused · Ernest Raymond · ex Cassell, 1935 402 · A Dark-Adapted Eye · Barbara Vine · ex 1986 408 · In a Lonely Place · Dorothy B. Hughes · ex 1950 412 · Strangers on a Train · Patricia Highsmith · ex 1950 421 · Index · [uncredited] · ix